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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Portland stoner metal project built on thick, slow-burning riffs and a hazy, psychedelic sensibility. Their material settles into a heavy, comfortable groove and rarely rushes toward anywhere in particular.
Doom and stoner metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2013. They craft thick, fuzz-drenched doom-stoner from Finland's oldest city.
Eugene, Oregon stoner and doom metal band rolling through hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs at the unhurried pace the genre demands. Creep Creep Janga leans into the Pacific Northwest's psychedelic doom tradition with loose-limbed heaviness.
Milwaukee stoner metal outfit Crepitus bring heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs and a hazy, psychedelic weight to the Wisconsin underground. Their sound favors slow, crushing grooves over aggression, built for the long haul.
Houston's Crevasse dive into the slow, psychedelic depths of stoner and doom metal with a warmth and heaviness shaped by the Texas heat. Their fuzz-heavy riffs crawl and expand with the patience of the Gulf Coast underground.
Stoner metal act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2024. Crimson Caravan delivers heavy, fuzzed-out grooves.
Sacramento doom and stoner metal duo immersed in thick, hazy riffs and slow-burning grooves that pull listeners deep into a hypnotic, smoke-filled sonic fog.
Stoner metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched stoner grooves from the Canary Islands.
Heavy Sludge / Stoner Metal from Dallas.
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